The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 88

So he went on just as before, and made friends whom he taught to be as wicked as himself, till they took to robbing the king’s storehouses, and by the advice of the Wise Man the king sent out soldiers to catch the band of thieves.

Who acts: life, friends, king · What happens: go on, make, teach, be, take, rob · To what, where: friends, storehouses, soldiers, band · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, friends, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 before	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 before	advmod
7	before	before	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 taught	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taught	nsubj
14	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 friends	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	18 wicked	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 wicked	cop
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 wicked	advmod
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 taught	ccomp
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 wicked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 took	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taught	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 robbing	mark
26	robbing	rob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 took	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 storehouses	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	storehouses	storehouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 robbing	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sent	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sent	cc
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 advice	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 advice	det
35	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sent	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 Man	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Man	det
38	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Man	amod
39	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 advice	nmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 king	det
41	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sent	nsubj
42	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 sent	compound:prt
44	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 sent	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 catch	mark
46	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 sent	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 band	det
48	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 catch	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 thieves	case
50	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 band	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	life			before property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	life not said here	friends			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
3	teach speech: other	past	life		friends		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
4	is	to-infinitive				as life; wicked property	tree rules
5	take	past	friends = friend				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	rob	gerund	friends = friend not said here	the king's storehouses			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storehouse=Source
7	send out	participle	the king	soldiers		by the advice of the Wise Man	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme
8	catch	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the band of thieves			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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